If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
By any means necessary.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
There are no rules. Just follow your heart.
With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.